EXCLUSIVE: A film adaptation of the Jerry Torre memoir The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens has been greenlit by Unger Media.
Torre’s story was detailed in the book co-authored by him and Tony Maietta released in 2018. Torre was nicknamed “The Marble Faun” by Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale and her mother —cousin and aunt, respectively, of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis—better known as Big Edie and Little Edie.
As a teen, Torre appeared in their 1975 documentary, Grey Gardens. The forthcoming film, also titled The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens, will tell the story of a gay teenage runaway from Brooklyn framing Big Edie and Little Edie as the misguided guardian angels in his life—and beyond.
Leo Geter (Longmire) is penning the script and will also produce; Drew Droege and Unger Media CEO Jonathan Unger will executive produce.
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